Bart de Jong
In spite of the tropical temperatures the 50 riders of the T-Mobile Local Support Miniramp Challenge on August 15th in Darmstadt showed amazing tricks in front of the crowd. The athletes found an ideal Miniramp setup with spine and subbox at the freshly renovated BMX park at the old town wall and made use of it with impressive team performances. In Pro class team Zoo WG with Sergej Geier and Markus Braumann convinced the judges and took the spot support worth € 4.000 back home. Showing tons of 
During a weekend, when most of the Swedish Society decides to queue like idiots at the IKEA store, the association Capital Athletics organised the Skogås Jam (near Stockholm). A lot of riders and people came up to watch the Jam and this year we had the visit of 2 riders from Flybikes: Javier Ortega and Stefan Lantschner. On the saturday, the park competition took place. The qualification was a theatre of great tricks even if the amount of riders on the Bikepark was totally insane sometimes. We started with the Junior, the level was awesome and it felt that they could give their life to be in the final. Big up to Victor Helmersson, he is 13 y.o and probably drank too much Rockstar Drink during the practice. He pulled backflip on the funbox, backflip on the spine, went really fast over the park and still was angry at himself. After a new half an hour of practice the Park Senior started and the level was higher than the past year. Many rider, that I don't remember the name, pulled stylish tricks all the time with "simplicity" and it felt that some Swedish rider will take over the world soon. Just wait one winter and you will see. 
The 2009 UCI Supercross World Cup sponsored by DCM Chrome in Pietermaritzburg will be staged in the Cattle Arena at the Royal Show Grounds in the centre of Pietermaritzburg. The competition track will be constructed as per the UCI’s design before the event and will be removed after. This venue offers many unique features that is sure to make the Pietermaritzburg leg of the UCI BMX World Cup one to remember for both athletes and supporters alike. Watch the Elite Men and Women semis and final LIVE on Saturday August 22 at 
-Frame: DK -Forks: DK Alpha
-Headset: Eastern
-Stem: DK Alpha
-Bars: Patrick's
-Grips: ODI
-Bar ends: Poverty
-Brake lever: SNAFU C2
-Brake cable: SNAFU Astro cable
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.